EDUCATION

New competencies are key drivers for a sustainable and a prosperity driven future while skills needed are changing rapidly with a broad set of knowledge, attitudes and values in action are expected by students, employees and managers.

For us at IMPACT.INVEST creating a `new normal´ in education is eminent for a sustainable future while education remains ”the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world". (Nelson Mandela)

It is expected that >65% of children age 6-12 will find themselves in occupations that today do not exist while those entering the job markets today have to upskill their competencies permanently. Our future generation will more than ever need to value common prosperity, sustainability and well-being. They will need to be responsible and empowered, placing collaboration above division, and sustainability above short-term gain.

Students, employees and managers who are best prepared for the future are change agents. They can have a positive impact on their surroundings, influence the future, understand others' intentions, actions and feelings, and anticipate the short and long-term consequences of what they do. The concept of competency implies more than just the acquisition of knowledge and skills; it involves the mobilization of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to meet complex demands. Future-ready students and employees will need both broad and specialized knowledge. Today, with an average time in a single job at 4.2 years the need to skill, re-skill and re-skill again has become imperative.

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Knowledge

Disciplinary knowledge will continue to be as important, as the raw material from which new knowledge is developed, together with the capacity to think across the boundaries of disciplines and “connect the dots”.

Skills

Applying knowledge in unknown and evolving circumstances requires cognitive and meta-cognitive skills, social and emotional skills and practical skills (e.g. using new information and technology devices).

Attitude

The use of a broader range of knowledge and skills will be mediated by attitudes and values (e.g. motivation, trust, respect for diversity and virtue).

Creating Value

Increasingly, innovation springs through cooperation and collaboration with others through adaptability, creativity, curiosity and open-mindedness.

Reconciling conflicts

Address interconnections and inter-relations between contradictory or incompatible ideas, logics and positions, from both short- and long-term perspectives.